You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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